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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Kharkov

Kharkov was a German attack on the town of Kharkov were Russian soldiers were stationed. The German commander Hausser ordered the 2nd SS Panzer corps (a tank division) to charge Kharkov. Then the Leibstrandarte division or the the Adolf Hitler division and other SS Waffen troops were sent in to attack this industrial city. One German described how slow the fighting was saying "Street after street house after house". Even thought the fighting seemed slow from the soldiers perspective, the Germans captured half the city in less than a day. Then on march 15th the SS Waffen defeated the last pocket of resistance.

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